Hopper: An American Love Story | movie | 2022 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

Countless painters, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have been influenced by Hopper's art – but who was he, and | dG1femdiVVl0MDBMeFU

Transcript

00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 Hopper's New York is so silent it's almost eerie,

00:11 but it's almost welcoming in that it's

00:13 another vision of Manhattan.

00:17 His paintings' reaction to the city

00:19 are devoid of human presence, not what

00:22 we would expect at all.

00:24 By a realist American artist living in New York,

00:28 you're having realist American painters defining

00:32 what is a national experience through the figure,

00:36 through the evocation of technology,

00:38 the ways in which transformation can be cataloged,

00:42 shifting gender norms or class statuses

00:45 that one can achieve by living in the city

00:47 and making something of oneself.

00:50 Hopper disengages from that conversation.

00:54 We don't have the cacophony of the subway, of the voices,

00:57 of the peddlers on the street.

00:59 We don't have the crush of bodies.

01:01 We have an artist who is stripping out his canvases,

01:05 imagining a city that is very much of his own creation,

01:09 not doing anything any New Yorker urban artist is really

01:13 doing at this time.

01:16 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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